“We’ve misplaced the battle, however not the struggle.”
These had been some easy phrases which got here out from Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer after his workforce was bashed by eight wickets within the Indian Premier League 2025 Qualifier 1 match towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Chandigarh, on Thursday.
Batting first, PBKS, which completed first on the factors desk first time since 2014, imploded towards a potent RCB assault led by Yash Dayal and Josh Hazlewood within the Powerplay. Opener Priyansh Arya fell in simply the second over earlier than Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed the opposite opener, Prabhsimran Singh. Hazlewood picked two massive scalps of skipper Iyer and in-form Josh Inglis. Ultimately, PBKS had been bundled out for simply 101 in 14.1 overs earlier than RCB romped house chasing the goal with 10 overs to stay.
Though PBKS misplaced the match vs RCB, the Iyer-led PBKS are nonetheless not out of the event. They are going to play the winner of the Gujarat Titans vs Mumbai Indians match within the second Qualifier.
“Not a day to neglect, however received to return to the drafting board. We misplaced a whole lot of wickets (within the first innings. There’s rather a lot to return and research on,” mentioned Iyer after the loss.
Iyer mentioned he isn’t going to trouble about his decision-making making and PBKS didn’t execute the planning, which gave the impression to be spot on forward of the sport.
“I’m not doubting my selections to be trustworthy. No matter we did by way of planning, exterior of the bottom no matter (planning) we did, I believe it was on level. Simply that we couldn’t execute it on the sector,” he mentioned.
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“Can’t even blame the bowlers, because it was a low whole to defend. We’ve set to work on our batting particularly on this wicket. In all of the video games we’ve got performed right here there was some variable bounce,” he added.
“We are able to’t give such causes as a result of we’re professionals on the finish of the day, and we’ve got to bat in line with the state of affairs and we’ve got to stay as much as it,” mentioned Iyer.